I have written in the past that politics can have a great effect on market performance. Today America is enduring one of the most contentious political climates in memory, and at the same time the stock market has become volatile. The best year in the four-year presidential election cycle is the year before the election. […]
Archives for December 2018
Buchanan’s Paleo Conservatives Were Right on Immigration
Originally posted February 1, 2018. Paul Gottfried, a professor of humanities at Elizabethtown College and author of Fascism: The Career of a Concept, explains in The American Conservative that neocon Bill Kristol has incorrectly lumped in Tucker Carlson with the paleoconservatives on the subject of immigration. Gottfried explains that in Carlson’s view, it is the will […]
For Monsieur Macron – Too Little Too Late?
Last year, when President Trump withdrew the U.S. from the Paris climate agreement, French President Macron, in English, lectured Mr. Trump: “There is no Plan B because there is no Planet B.” Well, the last three weeks of less-than-harmonious demonstrations by the Gilets Jaunes (yellow vests) have been so trying for Mr. Macron that he […]
French “banlieues” Breeding Grounds For Failed Muslim Assimilation
In The American Conservative, Will Collins outlines the deep divide between Paris and its suburbs, known as “banlieues,” where much of France’s immigrant population has settled. Collins warns that France’s immigrant-heavy suburban housing complexes have become a breeding ground for gang violence and Islamic radicalism, and that between 15 and 20 percent of French citizens will be Muslim by […]
The Sommelier’s Atlas of Taste: Buy it Today
Here The New York Times offers it’s breaking news roster of The Best Wine Books of 2018. I ordered Rajat Parr’s The Sommelier’s Atlas of Taste as soon as the book was released. In that I view Rajat as #1 on today’s international wine scene (Mr. Burgundy) ordering his seminal new atlas was a no […]
A Survival Guy Stocking Stuffer
Merry pre-Christmas from Your Survival Guy, bringing you holiday cheer and good tidings. How, you may ask? Well, imagine you accidentally drive off a bridge and are trapped in your car. Not necessarily the way you want to get the day started. You may find yourself in need of cutting away your seatbelt and shattering […]
Woodrow Wilson: “America’s Most Left-Wing Progressive President”
At The American Conservative, Bradley Birzer explains the racist and bigoted past of the American Progressive movement, and the views of its earliest champion, Woodrow Wilson, who as Birzer writes, “might have been America’s most left-wing progressive president.” He explains (abridged): Toward what do the progressives of today believe they are progressing? The chances are […]
R.I.P. George H. W. Bush
From WGBH public radio on the 41st President: As the nation says good-bye to a former president, many in the Maine town of Kennebunkport are remembering a neighbor. David Mulvar, a waiter at Mabel’s Lobster Claw, where the Bushes often visited, remembers one of those dinners. After Mr. Bush finished his meal, he went over […]
Bad Guys and Their Guns
Restrictive gun laws don’t keep guns out of the hands of bad guys. They’ll get their guns on the black market, or simply make them as you’ll see below. J.D. Tuccille details the efforts of various criminals, rebels, insurgents, and enthusiasts to produce their own firearms. He writes: The types of weapons people produce for […]
Are You Investing in the Armored Truck of Financial Markets?
Are your investments characterized by the flash and speed of a supercar, or the reliability and protection of a Brinks truck? There’s nothing wrong with a super powered automobile made to take on curves at maximum speed, but the power that makes those machines exciting, is also what breaks their parts. All that torque can […]
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